Saturday, July 15, 2017

Journal of Sociolinguitics

The 200 most cited articles




1.         Variation and the indexical field  
2.         Gender and genre variation in weblogs  
3.         Introduction: Sociolinguistics and computer-mediated communication  
4.         Neo-Hymesian linguistic ethnography in the United Kingdom  
5.         Language rights: Moving the debate forward  
6.         Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of /aw/-monophthongization in Pittsburgh  
7.         Phonation type as a stylistic variable: The use of falsetto in constructing a persona  
8.         Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English  
9.         Constructing ethnicity in interaction  
10.       Indexing stance: Reported speech as an interactional evidential  
11.       Localized globalization: A multi-local, multivariate investigation of quotative be like  
12.       Towards a material ethnography of linguistic landscape: Multilingualism, mobility and space in a South African township  
13.       A step too far: Discursive psychology, linguistic ethnography and questions of identity  
14.       Multilingualism, diaspora, and the Internet: Codes and identities on German-based diaspora websites  
15.       Problems with the 'language-as-resource' discourse in the promotion of heritage languages in the U.S.A.  
16.       Ideologised values for British accents  
17.       Ethnolinguistic repertoire: Shifting the analytic focus in language and ethnicity  
18.       All of the above: New coalitions in sociocultural linguistics  
19.       Commodified language in Chinatown: A contextualized approach to linguistic landscape  
20.       Gender identity and lexical variation in social media  
21.       Language and the nation-state: Challenges to sociolinguistic theory and practice  
22.       Appropriation of African American slang by Asian American youth  
23.       Situating language rights: English and Swahili in Tanzania revisited  
24.       'Talkin' Jockney'? Variation and change in Glaswegian accent  
25.       Discourse variation, grammaticalisation and stuff like that  
26.       Diagnostics of age-graded linguistic behaviour: The case of the quotative system  
27.       Linguistic ethnography and interdisciplinarity: Opening the discussion  
28.       Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization: Markets, timescales, neoliberalism  
29.       'Doing femininity' at work: More than just relational practice  
30.       Staging language: An introduction to the sociolinguistics of performance  
31.       Why dat now?: Linguistic-anthropological contributions to the explanation of sociolinguistic icons and change  
32.       Code choice and code-switching in Swiss-German Internet Relay Chat rooms  
33.       What is the role of power in sociolinguistic variation?  
34.       'Where are you from?': Identifying place  
35.       Dilemmas in planning English/vernacular relations in post-colonial communities  
36.       In other words: Language mixing, identity representations, and third space  
37.       Language shift and the family: Questions from the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora 1  
38.       Child dialect acquisition: New perspectives on parent/peer influence  
39.       The multi-functionality of accounts in advice giving  
40.       Rinkeby Swedish and semilingualism in language ideological debates: A Bourdieuean perspective  
41.       Style repertoire and social change in British Asian English  
42.       Language attitudes in interaction  
43.       /r/ and the construction of place identity on New York City's Lower East Side  
44.       Social stereotypes, personality traits and regional perception displaced: Attitudes towards the 'new' quotatives in the U.K.  
45.       Syntactic variation and beyond: Gender and social class variation in the use of discourse-new markers  
46.       Properties of the sociolinguistic monitor  
47.       Socio-phonetics and social change: Deracialisation of the GOOSE vowel in South African English  
48.       From FOB to cool: Transnational migrant students in Toronto and the styling of global linguistic capital  
49.       Nexus analysis: Refocusing ethnography on action  
50.       Postscript: Computer-mediated communication in sociolinguistics  
51.       Retention or omission of the ne in advanced French interlanguage: The variable effect of extralinguistic factors  
52.       Coming of age in African American English: A longitudinal study  
53.       Performing blackness, forming whiteness: Linguistic minstrelsy in Hollywood film  
54.       Rhotacization and the 'Beijing Smooth Operator': The social meaning of a linguistic variable 1  
55.       On scope and depth in linguistic ethnography  
56.       Linguistic human rights as a source of policy guidelines: A critical assessment  
57.       Introduction: The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence  
58.       Emerging Hispanic English: New dialect formation in the American South  
59.       Rapport-building activities in corner shop interactions  
60.       Metrolingual multitasking and spatial repertoires: 'Pizza mo two minutes coming'  
61.       Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting  
62.       Multilingualism and commercial language practices on the Internet  
63.       'Taking advantage'or fleeing persecution? Opposing accounts of asylum seeking  
64.       'On MSN with buff boys': Self- and other-identity claims in the context of small stories  
65.       'I'm Mexican, remember?' Constructing ethnic identities via authenticating discourse  
66.       Dialect stabilization and speaker awareness in non-native varieties of English  
67.       Commercial discourses, gentrification and citizens' protest: The linguistic landscape of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin  
68.       Constructing identity with L2: Pronunciation and attitudes among Norwegian learners of English  
69.       What's in a name? Language ideology and social differentiation in a Swedish print-mediated debate  
70.       The semiotics of language ideologies in Singapore  
71.       Girlz II women: Age-grading, language change and stylistic variation  
72.       Language choice and addressivity strategies in Thai-English social network interactions  
73.       Commentary: Foundations in performance  
74.       Voices in discourses: Dialogism, critical discourse analysis and ethnic identity  
75.       Identifying units in interaction: Reactive tokens in Korean and English conversations  
76.       The local political economy of languages in a Sámi tourism destination: Authenticity and mobility in the labelling of souvenirs  
77.       On 'flip-flopping': Branded stance-taking in U.S. electoral politics  
78.       From sociolinguistic variation to socially strategic stylisation  
79.       Singlish or Globish: Multiple language ideologies and global identities among Korean educational migrants in Singapore  
80.       Linguistic competency and citizenship: Contrasting portraits of multilingualism in the South Korean popular media  
81.       Dialect enregisterment in performance  
82.       Patterns of age-based linguistic variation in American English  
83.       Language ideologies in interviews: A conversation analysis approach  
84.       Studying language, culture, and society: Sociolinguistics or linguistic anthropology?  
85.       Language and identity among speakers of Spanish in northern Morocco: Between ethnolinguistic vitality and acculturation  
86.       Code eclecticism: Linguistic variation and code alternation in the chat language of Flemish teenagers  
87.       Methods in discourse variation analysis: Reflections on the way forward  
88.       Legal discourse and the cultural intelligiblity of gendered meanings  
89.       Language and sexuality in Spanish and English dating chats  
90.       Perceptions of variation and change in German and Swedish address  
91.       Multifunctional teasing as a resource for identity construction in the talk of British Bangladeshi girls  
92.       Struck by speech revisited: Embodied stance in jurisdictional discourse  
93.       The discourse of powerlessness and repression: Identity construction in domestic helper narratives  
94.       Beyond social networking: Performing global Englishes in Facebook by college youth in Nepal  
95.       Strange bedfellows: Appropriations of a tainted urban dialect  
96.       Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males  
97.       Normalizing bilingualism:The effects of the Catalonian linguistic normalization policy one generation after  
98.       The persistence of variation in individual grammars: Copula absence in 'urban soujourners' and their stay-at-home peers, Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)  
99.       Meaning making, communities of practice, and analytical toolkits  
100.     The struggle over class, identity, and language: A case study of South Korean transnational families  
101.     The social stratification of tongue shape for postvocalic /r/ in Scottish English1  
102.     Lexical struggle in court: Aboriginal Australians versus the state  
103.     'Du hast jar keene Ahnung': African American English dubbed into German  
104.     Styling the periphery: Linguistic and cultural takeup in Bangladesh and Mongolia  
105.     Focusing, implicational scaling, and the dialect status of New York Latino English  
106.     Variation in the English definite article: Socio-historical linguistics in t'speech community  
107.     Linguistic differentiation and Mayan language revitalization in Guatemala  
108.     Youth, slang, and pragmatic expressions: Examples from Brazilian Portuguese  
109.     Perception is reality: Parisian and Provençal perceptions of regional varieties of French  
110.     Writing as a sociolinguistic object  
111.     The sociolinguistics of writing in a global context: Objects, lenses, consequences  
112.     A tipping point in dialect obsolescence? Change across the generations in Lerwick, Shetland  
113.     Elite positionings towards Hindi: Language policies, political stances and language competence in India  
114.     Intertextual stancetaking and the local negotiation of cultural identities by a binational couple  
115.     Martha Stewart behaving badly: Parody and the symbolic meaning of style  
116.     Dimensions of style: Context, politics and motivation in gay Israeli speech  
117.     Transgression narratives, dialogic voicing, and cultural change  
118.     'Who was the best?': Power, knowledge and rationality in bilingual girls' code choices  
119.     Global fatigue: Transnational markets, linguistic capital, and Korean-American male English teachers in South Korea  
120.     Voice, place and genre in popular song performance  
121.     Quoting ethnicity: Constructing dialogue in Aotearoa/New Zealand  
122.     Linguistic ethnography in realist perspective  
123.     Mosaic identity and style: Phonological variation among Reform American Jews  
124.     Gentlemanly gender? Japanese men's use of clause-final politeness in casual conversations  
125.     Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction  
126.     'Building rapport' with customers across the world: The global diffusion of a call centre speech style  
127.     Staking the claims of identity: Purism, linguistics and the media in post-1990 Germany  
128.     The paradox of Spanish among Miami Cubans  
129.     Attribute networking: A technique for modeling social perceptions  
130.     Texting Africa: Writing as performance  
131.     Speaking French in Portugal: An analysis of contested models of emigrant personhood in narratives about return migration and language use  
132.     'And what comes out may be a kind of screeching': The stylisation of chavspeak in contemporary Britain  
133.     Code-switching and borrowing in Irish  
134.     Discourse marker 'oh' as a means for realizing the identity potential of constructed dialogue in interaction  
135.     Sex similarities and differences in stance in informal American conversation  
136.     Girls and guys, ghetto and bougie: Metapragmatics, ideology and the management of social identities  
137.     'You tell all the stories': Using narrative to explore hierarchy within a Community of Practice  
138.     Diffusion of language change: Accommodation to a moving target  
139.     The effect of proximity in perceptual dialectology  
140.     Women of the corporation: A sociolinguistic perspective of senior women's leadership language in the U.K.  
141.     The green leaves of love: Japanese romantic heroines, authentic femininity, and dialect  
142.     'Ch'us mon propre Bescherelle': Challenges from the Hip-Hop nation to the Quebec nation  
143.     Alternate and complementary perspectives on language and social life: The organization of repair in two Caribbean communities  
144.     Code-switching and social identities in the Eastern Maroon community of Suriname and French Guiana  
145.     The dark arts of good people: How popular culture negotiates 'spin' in NBC's The West Wing  
146.     Introduction: Sociolinguistics and tourism - mobilities, markets, multilingualism  
147.     The Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology and the politics of identity in a globalized Arab world  
148.     It don't go both ways: Limited bidirectionality in sociolinguistic perception  
149.     English in contemporary Sweden: Perceptions, policies, and narrated practices  
150.     Shared spaces, shared structures: Latino social formation and African American English in the U.S. south  
151.     Commodification of place, consumption of identity: The sociolinguistic construction of a 'global village' in rural China  
152.     Variation, contact and social indexicality in the acquisition of (ing) by teenage migrants  
153.     The role of marriage in linguistic contact and variation: Two Hmong dialects in Texas  
154.     Literacy and script attitudes in multilingual Eritrea  
155.     Miracles of love: The use of metaphor in egg donor ads  
156.     That straight talk: Sarah Palin and the sociolinguistics of demonstratives  
157.     The authenticating discourses of mining heritage tourism in Cornwall and Wales  
158.     The mediated innovation model: A framework for researching media influence in language change  
159.     Linguistic commodification in tourism  
160.     Narratives from the neighbourhood: The discursive construction of integration problems in talkback radio  
161.     Double-mouthed discourse: Interpreting, framing, and participant roles1  
162.     Measuring rates of word-final nasal velarization: The effect of dialect contact on in-group and out-group exchanges  
163.     Sociological consciousness as a component of linguistic variation  
164.     Reflections on linguistic ethnography  
165.     Self-presentation in sociolinguistic interviews: Identities and language variation in Panambi, Brazil  
166.     Language, multiple authenticities and social media: The online language practices of university students in Mongolia  
167.     Diffusion, drift, and the irrelevance of media influence  
168.     Commodifying Sámi culture in an indigenous tourism site  
169.     Working towards a more complete sociolinguistics  
170.     'Don't speak like that to her!': Linguistic minority children's socialization into an ideology of monolingualism  
171.     Ethics and social media: Implications for sociolinguistics in the networked public  
172.     Commentary:Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization and the distinction of global elites  
173.     Globalization of English teaching and overseas Koreans as temporary migrant workers in rural Korea  
174.     Identity, language, and ethnic relations in the Bilingual Autonomous Communities of Spain  
175.     Noisy zones of proximal development: Conversation in noisy classrooms  
176.     Social relationships and shifting languages in Northern Thailand  
177.     Semiosis, interaction and ethnicity in urban Java  
178.     Slaves speak pseudo-Toohoku- ben: The representation of minorities in the Japanese translation of Gone with the Wind  
179.     Urban pioneers in the making: Recontextualization and the emergence of the engaged resident in redeveloping communities  
180.     Prosodic cues of identity construction: Intensity in Greek young women's conversational narratives  
181.     Reading 'TH': Vernacular variants in Pasifika Englishes in South Auckland  
182.     Language rights in Indigenous communities: The case of the Inuit of Arctic Québec  
183.     Language loss in Guatemala: A statistical analysis of the 1994 population census  
184.     Police interviews with vulnerable people alleging sexual assault: Probing inconsistency and questioning conduct  
185.     The evolutionary dynamics of postcolonial Englishes: A Hong Kong case study  
186.     Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun  
187.     Interaction without walls: Analysing leadership discourse through dramaturgy and participation  
188.     'English... it's part of our blood': Ideologies of language and nation in United States Congressional discourse  
189.     Vowel harmony redux: Correct sounds, English loan words, and the sociocultural life of a phonological structure in Korean  
190.     Falling in love again and again: Marlene Dietrich and the iconization of non-native English  
191.     Lexical change and language contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada  
192.     Austrian listeners' perceptions of standard-dialect style-shifting: An empirical approach  
193.     The big story about small stories: Narratives of crime and terrorism  
194.     'Luckily it was only for 10 minutes': Ideology, discursive positions, and language socialization in family interaction1  
195.     The Apparent-Time Construct and stable variation: Final /z/ devoicing in northwestern Indiana  
196.     Disciplinary mixing: Types and cases  
197.     What does it mean to be a girl with qizhi?: Refinement, gender and language ideologies in contemporary Taiwan  
198.     The effect of age and gender on the choice of address forms in Chinese personal letters  
199.     Constructing identity: Grammatical variables and the creation of a community voice  
200.     Rear gunners and troubled privates: Wordplay in a dick joke competition  

Eminent Authors


  1. Bell, A.
  2. Sharma, D.
  3. Coupland, N.
  4. Britain, D.
  5. Buchstaller, I.
  6. Cheshire, J.
  7. Jaworski, A.
  8. Levon, E.
  9. Meyerhoff, M.
  10. Stanford, J.N.
  11. Eckert, Penelope 



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